Quote #24
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. (From Paths in Utopia)
More from Martin Buber
- Solitude is the place of purification.
- The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
- Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
- The ones who count are those persons who- though they may be of little renown- respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the l…
- Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
- The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
- I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
- The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.